Unfair Attack on Schumer

Reader comment on: WSJ on Majority Leader Schumer

Submitted by JLS (United States), Oct 29, 2010 15:04

I am usually not a fan of Sen. Schumer, having followed his career and having lived in his district for many years. But it is a stretch, a huge stretch, to claim that he is "outspokenly against" civil liberties because of his position against the Court's ruling on corporate campaign contributions and, especially, his support for the bill granting law enforcement the ability to engage in "multi-point (roving) wiretaps" etc. without court order. Virtually all law enforcement agencies, Federal and local, appealed for that right, given that criminals and potential terrorists were employing disposable cell phones to evade court approved wiretaps. Had the law not been changed, demanding that law enforcement officers must go back to the courts to get approval everytime a new phone was utilized by the person being wiretapped, the government would have been seriously handicapped in trying to prevent terrorism and criminality. That Schumer went up against the criminal bar in backing this bill is something that should be commended not denounced.

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